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New Book Announcement: “Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return” by Patricia P Chu
5 February 2019
In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related…
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New Book Announcement: “From Confinement to Containment: Japanese/American Arts during the Early Cold War” by Edward Tang
30 January 201930 January 2019
During the early part of the Cold War, Japan emerged as a model ally, and Japanese Americans were seen as a model minority. From Confinement to Containment examines the work of four Japanese and Japanese/American artists and writers during this period: the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the…
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New Book Announcement: “Inseparable across Lifetimes The Lives and Love Letters of the Tibetan Visionaries Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tāre Lhamo”
18 January 2019
Professor Holly Gayley offers a full translation of the tantric love letters between Namtrul Rinpoche and Khandro Tare Lhamo, two Buddhist lamas who worked to preserve Tibetan Buddhist culture in the wake of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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New Book Announcement: “The Cloud That Fell From the Sky” by Judy Choi and Phoenix Brown
13 January 2019
The debut poetry book from Chinese-American writers Judy Choi and Phoenix Brown.
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New Book Announcement: “Old Hong Kong Photos and the Tales They Tell” (Vol. 2) by David Bellis
8 January 201913 January 2019
The ARB reviewer of Volume 1 of Old Hong Kong Photos and the Tales They Tell wrote “Let’s hope the next one comes out soon.” As requested, Volume 2 is now available, with a new selection from David Bellis’s collection of old Hong Kong photos.
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2018: India in the Asian Review of Books
6 January 20196 January 2019
Book reviews on Indian fiction and non-fiction from 2018, covering history, literature, sociology, art, culture and international relations.
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2018: Chinese fiction in translation
30 December 201830 December 2018
Our reviews of Chinese fiction—novels and short story collections—in translation this year.
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2018: Hong Kong’s Year in Opera
28 December 2018
Hong Kong had full year of opera performances, from grand opera to chamber opera and recital, in Italian, French, English and even Chinese, augmented by excellent performances in Macau and Shenzhen.
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New Book Announcement: “Japanese Picture Dictionary” by Timothy G Stout
27 December 2018
Deftly illustrating the use of more than 1,500 commonly used Japanese words and phrases, author Timothy Stout gives learners a clear, easy-to-use introduction to this fascinating language.
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2018: Round-up of “Best Books” lists (updated)
21 December 201821 December 2018
How did Asia fare in the best books’ races in the English language press? On the whole, it seems better than last year. The following (unscientific) sampling uses a broad definition of “Asian” in it’s selection, but nevertheless, the number of books about Asia, by Asian authors, in translation seems to have increased in the…
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2018: The Year in Asian Books
19 December 201819 December 2018
A subjective list of some books we particularly liked this year. Fiction (in translation and not), history, biography, literature, society, memoir, photography, religion, covering Asia from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from Siberia to India.
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New Book Announcement: “Korea: The Impossible Country” by Daniel Tudor
18 December 2018
In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from a failed state, ruined and partitioned by war and decades of colonial rule, into an economic powerhouse and a democracy that serves as a model for other countries. How was it able to achieve this with no natural resources and a tradition of authoritarian rule?…
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New Book Announcement: “Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance” by Daromir Rudnyckyj
7 December 20187 December 2018
Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based on research in Malaysia, Daromir Rudnyckyj illustrates how the state, led by the central bank, seeks to make Kuala Lumpur “the New York of the Muslim world”—the central node of global financial activity conducted in accordance with Islam.
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New Book Announcement: “The Indian Metamorphosis: Essays in Its Enlightenment, Education and Society” by Arup Maharatna
5 December 20185 December 2018
This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India’s balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence.
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New book announcement: “The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and its Global Entanglements”, edited by Roham Alvandi
23 November 201823 November 2018
The history of Pahlavi Iran has traditionally been written as prologue to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and firmly located within a national historical context. However, the reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), in fact marked the high-point of Iran’s global interconnectedness. Never before had Iranians felt the impact of global…
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